Odessa II Mechnikov National University is the leading scientific and educational center of modern Ukraine, the first higher educational institution in the southern region of the country. The origins of university education in the south of Ukraine date back to the early nineteenth century, and more specifically to 1817, when the famous Richelieu Lyceum was founded. Having emerged as a closed educational institution for noble children, at the beginning of the third decade of its existence, due to the reforms of the trustee DM Knyazhevich, the lyceum approached the university system in structure and content of education. Powerful impulse on the way of transformation of the lyceum to the university was given by the famous scientist MI Pirogov, who in the mid-1850s was in the position of trustee of the Odessa educational district, and the process was completed in the next decade.

Recognition of the merits of the University in the years of Ukraine's independence is the presentation of the Honorary Certificate of the Cabinet of Ministers in 2003. Five times in a row (2005-2009) ONU was awarded the honorary title of "Leader of Contemporary Education", and in 2010 - Grand Prix in the rating competition at the exhibition "Contemporary Education in Ukraine", organized by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine. During 2011-2014, for the fourth time, the university received the honorary title of "Leader of scientific and scientific-technical activity" and the Grand Prix in the nomination "Efficiency of research work of a higher educational institution". In addition, in 2014 ONU was ranked 4th in the rating of higher educational establishments of Ukraine by the Scopus scientometric database.

Now ONU is more than a tens of thousands of students and one and a half thousand students. Among the last - more than 20 academicians and corresponding members of state and branch academies, 18 honored workers of science, education, culture, 12 laureates of state awards and other state level awards, almost 120 doctors of sciences, professors, more than 600 candidates of sciences, associate professors at nearly 100 departments. Each year, the university holds several dozen international conferences, publishes several hundred monographs, textbooks and textbooks, and thousands of scientific articles.

The University trains specialists on the basis of the relevant license in 20 fields and more than 40 specialties. There are three educational and scientific institutes in the university system - mathematics, economics and mechanics, innovative and postgraduate education, social sciences - and ten faculties (physical, chemical, geological-geographical, biological, philosophical, historical, philological, romance-germany) - legal, journalism, advertising and publishing), fifty scientific institutes, research units, problem and industry laboratories.
On May 13, 2015, Odessa IIMechnikov National University celebrated the 150th anniversary of its foundation.

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